Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-12 | Page 2 | Friend of the Agriculturist

FRIEND OF THE agriculturist deewit of great aid in keeping down grubs and insects A bird anat is of inestimable benefit to the agriculturist Is says nature notes the deewit there Is absolutely nothing that can be said against him and as a friend of the farmer it would be hard to find his equal he has no taste tor corn or any other of the farmers crops spending his time n the search for grubs and insects upon the fallows and when the frost drives him from his usual haunts he betakes himself to the water meadows and ekes out a bare existence ing for food in the mud alongside the running streams he Is a wary bird and well able to protect himself from the gunner and from this cause his numbers suffer but little diminution but it Is a thousand pities that the craze for aloi ers eggs Is still as alent as ever and it Is to be regretted that t i taking of them Is not severely prohibited many observers hae given it as their opinion that are less common in many parts than formerly and it cannot be doubted that the annual collection of their eggs tor eating purposes has brought about this state of things it would be a bad day tor the farmer it the deewit were to become extinct